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Can I get tomato plants from seeds of store-bought tomatoes?
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:13:31 -0400, Brooklyn1
wrote: Boron Elgar wrote: songbird wrote: as for diseases, our location seems to favor certain types of late season blight, but if we can get a crop through the mid-summer it doesn't matter what the blight does. it doesn't ruin the fruit. last season was unusual for us in that the disease took 90% of the crop just in the last few weeks of ripening. greenhouse people said it was last seen in this area 80 years ago. likely weather and growing medium related, but hard to prove without a lab to do the work and ways to trace things... I have gotten blight or other fungal problems with tomatoes at times. I gave up on rotation planting, as that did not seem to solve the problem. I think weather is a big contributing factor with my disorders, none of them too serious. I also grow in large tubs on the deck, where there is no crowding. That doesn't eliminate the problems, either, but I have never had huge losses. Fungus with nightshades is a result of wet leaves over night. When needed water in the AM and not the plant, water the ground only... tomatoes are best watered with buried soaker hoses, never overhead watering. Tomatoes also benefit from good aeration, do not crowd. I'm fortunate in that my vegetable garden is situated alongside a small natural spring, I plant tomatoes closest to the spring, I never need to water as that ground is always ideally moist. Just as over in RFC, you are a cut and paste idiot here, too. No one controls the rain or the dew. Tomatoes *can* be grown quite successfully in VERY crowded conditions as my photos show. This is only mid July, too. You should see the bed a month later. And this bed is rarely watered. The shelter of the plantings keeps the soil shaded and moist and also keeps the weeds down. http://i58.tinypic.com/23sujag.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/1jrt5y.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2n171qo.jpg A lot of kitchen gardening can be done intensively, if one puts a mind to it. http://i58.tinypic.com/v5ljza.jpg Now, back in the bozo bin, where you have spent virtually all of the past 14 years. |
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